AVP League: Retiring Ross, Miami Mayhem set for weekend in Oceanside
One of the greatest players to ever grace the sand, April Ross, told her legion of fans that she would retire from competitive beach volleyball after the AVP League season.The formal announcement came on Monday in a post on...
International Volleyball Hall induction celebration: Brazilian Ana Paula Henkel
Olympics Beach Tom FeuerOctober 17, 2024“Everything was fine with them (Cuba) until we started to beat them,” Ana Paula recalled. “We were the No. 1 and 2 teams in the world at the time of the...
Volleyball Today: Stanford gets tough sweep at SMU; big win for Bama; USF takes...
SoCon moves tournamentFrom the Southern Conference:SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The 2024 Ingles Southern Conference Volleyball Championship, originally slated for Asheville, North Carolina, will be contested on Nov. 21-24 at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.“We heard very clearly from some...
Volleyball Today: SMU home for Stanford; NCAA stat leaders; Hawai’i to MWC
NCAA Women Lee FeinswogOctober 16, 2024TUESDAY: There were five matches, including Nevada’s five-set Mountain West victory over visiting Utah State. Gabby McLaughlin, a 5-foot-8 freshman outside, led the Wolf Pack with 21 kills, an assist, nine...
International Volleyball Hall induction celebration: Brazilian coach Jose “Ze Roberto” Guimaraes
This is one in a series previewing the inductees going into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts, on Saturday. This year there are nine inductees, two indoor players in Italian Andrea Zorzi and Cuba’s Regla Bell; two beach...
International Volleyball Hall of Fame induction celebration: USA’s John Kessel
Courtside Tom FeuerOctober 15, 2024Kessel grew up in Camarillo, California, before matriculating to Colorado College in 1970. He got a very start in coaching. At just 18 he started the women’s club team at Colorado College,...
Volleyball Team Building Drills – Coaching Volleyball
We can approach the subject of team building from both an on-court and off-court perspective. In this post I am going to focus on the on-court aspect and offer a collection of volleyball team building drills you can...
World ParaVolley Level 2 Coaching Pilot takes off with global participation
World ParaVolley is set to run the highly anticipated Level 2 Coaching Pilot this weekend, marking an exciting step forward in the development of sitting volleyball coaching. The programme is designed to elevate the skills of experienced coaches...
AVP League week 5 recap: First-place New York Nitro goes 3-1
The New York Nitro consolidated their lead in the AVP League standings, winning three of four matches over the weekend in damp South Florida.The Nitro’s hiccup occurred on Sunday afternoon when Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes came out uncharacteristically flat against up-and-comers Megan Kraft and Terese Cannon of...
No. 1 debate, virtues of SMU, IVHF weekend on tap in the NCAA weekly...
Should Pittsburgh still be No. 1 ahead of Nebraska?That and more — including more great T-shirts (thank you Stony Brook) as ESPN and Big Ten Network volleyball analyst Emily Ehman and VolleyballMag editor Lee Feinswog get together for...